Diplomacy (2014)
A historical drama that depicts the relationship between Dietrich von Choltitz, the German military governor of occupied Paris, and Swedish consul-general Raoul Nordling.
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Cabiria (1914)
Cabiria is a Roman child when her home is destroyed by a volcano. Sold in Carthage to be sacrificed in a temple, is saved by Fulvio, a Roman spy. But danger lurks, and hatred between Rome and Carthage can only lead to war.
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Becoming Astrid (2018)
Biopic of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, the author of numerous children's books and creator of Pippi Longstocking.
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The Divine Order (2017)
In 1971, a young housewife organizes the women of her town to petition for the right to vote.
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Damn the Defiant! (1962)
On the H.M.S. Defiant, during the French Revolutionary War, fair Captain Crawford is locked in a battle of wills against his cruel second-in-command Lieutenant Scott-Padget, whose heavy-handed command style pushes the crew to mutiny.
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The Invisibles (2017)
While Joseph Goebbels infamously declared Berlin "free of Jews" in 1943, 1,700 managed to survive in the Nazi capital through the end of WWII. The Invisibles traces the stories of four young people who learned to hide in plain sight.
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La Marseillaise (1938)
A news-reel like movie about early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of individual people, citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course the king Louis XVI, showing their own small problems.
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Monsieur N. (2003)
Napoleon Bonaparte (Philippe Torreton) faces imprisonment and exile, while years later his body is exhumed in 1840.
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The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
Dr. Samuel Mudd (Warner Baxter) sets John Wilkes Booth's leg after Lincoln is shot, and is sentenced for life.
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The Lady and the Duke (2001)
The tale of a beautiful, royalist English gentlewoman living perilously in France during the Revolution, and her sometimes affectionate, sometimes tempestuous relationship with Philippe, Duke of Orleans, a cousin of King Louis XVI but nonetheless a supporter of revolutionary ideas. The Lady manages to persuade the Duke to rescue an outlaw, but fails to keep him from voting for the King's execution.
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